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lava_pidgeon commented on Richest Americans Die Earlier Than the Poorest Europeans   vice.com/en/article/money... · Posted by u/LtWorf
koliber · 17 days ago
This is surprising as it goes against the what I've heard in the past.

The 10,000 foot summary I had was: Americans are starting to die earlier, but the age expectancy of the wealthiest Americans is longer than of people in most countries.

This article says that even the American top 1% die earlier than people in other countries. However, the lack of numbers makes me question this.

Also, the cited reason is socialized healthcare. In the US, the top 1% has access to healthcare through their employers of being able to pay on their own, so it is surprising that this would be a major factor.

I think this article is lacking the details that would make me take the claims seriously.

lava_pidgeon · 17 days ago
The usual explanation is it is more dangerous to live in America e.g. homicides are much spread than in Europe. It is so much more dangerous compared to Europe which always had a war starting every 15 years after 1990.

Also the health system in America is fucked. This isn't a question of socialised vs privatised system as all health systems in Europe have a mix of both. (England is a big outlier here).

lava_pidgeon commented on Italy's pizza detectives   bbc.com/travel/article/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
harimau777 · 23 days ago
Pizza's interesting to me because it's one of the few foods where I think the American variant is largely superior to the original. All of the "traditional style" pizza I've had simply doesn't have near enough cheese.

Sort of reminds me of how Japan has mastered high end denim despite it being a very American product.

lava_pidgeon · 23 days ago
" Pizza's interesting to me because it's one of the few foods where I think the American variant is largely superior to the original. All of the "traditional style" pizza I've had simply doesn't have near enough cheese. "

It is such an American comment. Cheese is a very diverse food and putting on pizza itself not a quality.

But my main point is that: Ranking food is so American. I like to draw this comparision: Germany today has the highest share of people not born in the country (20%). So it is not a surprise the local cuisine is heavily influenced by foreign cuisines. The most famous dish of that process is Döner, originated from the Turkish Döner Kebab. So what are the Germans handle this fact? At least if you read comments in r/Döner, it is seen as just two different dishes with its own qualities. You can't get the OG Döner Kebab (and all its variants) in Germany very easily, but vice versa German - styled Döner in Turkey isn't so good. And I like that attitude. Food is art. You can't just rank art. But Americans still try.

lava_pidgeon commented on A deep critique of AI 2027's bad timeline models   lesswrong.com/posts/PAYfm... · Posted by u/paulpauper
allturtles · 2 months ago
The person you're replying to said "For me the risk of timelines is that they're unknowable due to the unpredictable nature of ASI." So they are predicting >90% chance of doom, but not when that will happen. Given that there is already a 100% chance of death at some unknown point in the future, why would this cause GP to start living like a terminal cancer patient (presumably defined as someone with a >99% chance of death in the next year)?
lava_pidgeon · 2 months ago
I like to point out, that the existence of AGI in the future does change my potential future planning. So I am 35. Do I need save for pensions? Does it make to sense to start family? These aren't 1 year questions but 20 years ahead questions...
lava_pidgeon commented on Vision Language Models Are Biased   vlmsarebiased.github.io/... · Posted by u/taesiri
lava_pidgeon · 3 months ago
At all, the models are just overfitting?
lava_pidgeon commented on The Speed of VITs and CNNs   lucasb.eyer.be/articles/v... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
jacobgorm · 4 months ago
A nice feature of CNNs is that you can change the resolution at inference time without retraining. For instance, when the user plugs in a camera with a different aspect or decides to the change the orientation of his phone from landscape to portrait. It is not clear to me if VITs can support aspect or resolution changes without any retraining?
lava_pidgeon · 4 months ago
Can you elaborate? In my experience it is the opposite: CNNs are highly depend on the input tensor shapes thus resolution change need even an architectional change. While resolution changes in ViT lead to more tokens, a ViT model can handle that (for image classification e.g. you always take the CLS token, Segmentation maps and similar task have the same output as in the input).

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